'Mera Thabum' summit held
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 08 2014:
The 85th Mera Thabum summit of the Apokpa Marup was held at Singjamei Mayengbam Leikai Lairembi Lampak today.
The summit was attended by RIMS Orthopaedic doctor Salam Nongthon Luwang, member of Puren Apokpa Marup Huidrom Tomchou Mangang and social worker Chingtham Manohar Khuman as the chief guest, president and guest of honour respectively.
While speaking about the indigenous script of Manipur, resource person of the summit Linguistic Expert Dr Th Chandramani said that the system used in the enunciation of Meitei Mayek (Meitei script) is called syllabic system.
Though the script is based on a very scientific system of enunciation, it has some influence of foreign languages.
The sound 'Bham' in the script is an influential addition from a different language.
The presence of other sounds like 'Gok', 'Jham', 'Rai', 'Ba', 'Jhil', 'Dil', 'Gou', 'Dou' and 'Bham' in the script has differentiated the indigenous script from the influenced language in the script and it has not created any confusion while reading any piece written in the script.
Therefore, exclusion of these additional sounds from the Meitei script would be a challenging task, he asserted.
He said, "Our language has 2300 influential elements" .
Speaking at the occasion, Editor of Naharolgi Thoudang Khoirom Loyalakpa said that the celebration of Mera Houchongba was a philosophy introduced by Naoriya Phulo and the Meitei ancestors to mark the stand of Meitei culture in Manipur.